Top crick­et coach De­bideen Man­ick en­vis­ages a par­a­digm shift in the way the young­sters are taught the game as lo­cal Lev­el I and II coach­es come to­geth­er for a two-day work­shop to up­grade their skills.

Man­ick who along with Bhood­ish Dook­ie, an­oth­er high­ly re­gard­ed coach will con­duct the pro­gramme Sat­ur­day (No­vem­ber 19) and Sun­day (Nov 20) from 9 am each day at the Sir Frank Wor­rell De­vel­op­ment Cen­tre at Bal­main, Cou­va.

“The T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) quite right­ly has iden­ti­fied the need to re­vis­it how things are done to im­prove the meth­ods of coach­ing which has a di­rect link to im­prov­ing the stan­dard of the game,” Man­ick said on Thurs­day.

“The time­ly in­ter­ven­tion of the TTCB will ad­dress the chal­lenges re­gion­al crick­eters face against their tra­di­tion­al ri­vals and less­er de­vel­oped crick­et na­tions who are now mak­ing a great im­pact on the world stage.”

The for­mer lo­cal gov­ern­ment coun­cil­lor for Fe­lic­i­ty/En­deav­our no­tably played a ma­jor role in coach­ing Cli­co Preysal Sports Club to the top ech­e­lon of lo­cal crick­et, and has re­mained com­mit­ted to youth de­vel­op­ment over the years.

Man­ick said while the fun­da­men­tals of the game re­main the same the Lev­el I and II coach­es will be re­quired to adopt method­olo­gies and con­cepts to im­prove their craft and boost the com­pet­i­tive­ness of their charges.

“The fo­cus will be on tech­nique, prepa­ra­tion, de­vel­op­ing in­ten­si­ty and strate­gies. It is a way the Crick­et Board in In­dia and the sport’s oth­er pow­er­hous­es have adopt­ed to great ef­fect,” said Man­ick.

Pres­i­dent of the TTCB Az­im Bas­sarath has ac­knowl­edged the im­por­tance of hav­ing the lo­cal coach­es up­date their skills bank and said the idea of the work­shop came out of meet­ings with the chair­men and sec­re­taries of the zon­al coun­cils, and coach­es in­volved in youth crick­et.

“The zon­al coun­cils were re­quest­ed to nom­i­nate the coach­es who meet the el­i­gi­bil­i­ty stan­dards to par­tic­i­pate in the work­shop which we are cer­tain will re­dound to the ben­e­fit of crick­et at all lev­els,” said Bas­sarath on Thurs­day.

Coach Man­ick said the course pro­gram will em­brace both the­o­ret­i­cal, prac­ti­cal and philo­soph­i­cal as­pects of the game and in­volve a high lev­el of in­for­ma­tion shar­ing among the coach­es.

He said he has worked with his fel­low fa­cil­i­ta­tor Dook­ie in the past and will re­ly on his repos­i­to­ry of knowl­edge and ex­pe­ri­ence to en­hance the ex­pe­ri­ence of the coach­es.

Par­tic­i­pants

Cen­tral zone: Robert Ma­habir, Kei­th Joseph, Adesh Dass, Fa­reed Khan, Ish­war Ram­nath

East zone: Clint Pam­phille, Egan Bazzey, Mikhail Williams, Kirt Fran­cis

North East: Bhag­wan­dass Ram­lo­gan, James Singh, Mi­tra Ra­goo­nanan, Nis­ar Mo­hammed, Lester Hanooman

South: Kalaper­sad Sanise, Kem­chan De­osaran, Stephen Ram­jat­tan, Christo­pher Ra­goo­nans­ingh

South East: An­gard Ram­daya, Ravi Teeluck, Nicholas Ramkissoon, Faoud Bas­sarath, Stephen Per­sad

South West: Grayson Alex­is, Ashram Gangabis­soon, Shur­land Beck­les, Ki­ta­ka Lessey

North: Ke­ston Lewis

Ad­di­tion­al: Ash­meer Ali